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Other life sciences

Cancer treatment and immunity: another detail of the mosaic

Deciphering the mechanism of the relationship between tumor and immune processes will help not only to facilitate the treatment of cancer, but also to understand the nature and ways to combat autoimmune inflammation.

13.04.2011
Other life sciences

A new target for obesity and diabetes drugs

Scientists at the Scripps Research Institute have discovered a key regulator of fat cell formation. This protein molecule may become the target of more effective drugs for the treatment of obesity and diabetes.

13.04.2011
Biotechnologies - into life

Goat Lactoferrin: Slow hurdling

Despite all the financial difficulties and legal difficulties, the implementation of the Russian lactoferrin project is not a hopeless thing.

13.04.2011
Healthy skepticism

The victory of innovation is inevitable!

Innovations in all spheres of life are now being introduced more actively than corn under Khrushchev, with approximately the same effect and the same enthusiasm of the population.

13.04.2011
Genetics

There are more and more "Alzheimer's genes"

So far, only four genes associated with Alzheimer's disease have been known. A group of scientists from 44 universities in the USA and Canada has discovered five new genes that affect the occurrence of this incurable disease.

13.04.2011
Other life sciences

Prevention of senile dementia: treat herpes before it's too late!

There is no doubt that the herpes virus is involved in the processes leading to the development of senile dementia. It is necessary to determine whether drugs for the treatment of herpes can slow down or prevent Alzheimer's disease.

11.04.2011
Your health

Biologically lethal additives

Additional lecithins and choline, coming together with biologically active food additives, can be the cause of cardiovascular diseases.

11.04.2011
Cellular technologies

Test tube eye: completely, though not completely

Japanese researchers have reproduced the development of the eye outside of a living organism. The culture of embryonic cells formed a three–dimensional structure - an eye glass, one of the last stages of eye development in mammalian embryos.

08.04.2011
Innovative Russia

Pharmacists need a passport

So far, young innovative companies occupy a negligible share in the Russian pharmaceutical market. And, alas, there are enough factors that can freeze the innovative trend in the domestic pharmaceutical industry.

08.04.2011
Note to the businessman

How to become a RUSNANO supplier

The conference "How to become a RUSNANO supplier" will be held at the office of the same-named JSC on May 25, 2011. Participation in the conference is free of charge.

08.04.2011
Grants and competitions

Scholarships for postgraduate studies in Life Sciences

The Ernst Schering Foundation provides scholarships for dissertation research (postgraduate scholarship) in biology, chemistry, medicine and in interdisciplinary fields – in biochemistry and bioinformatics.

08.04.2011
Your health

Why do you need this hemorrhoid?

Hemorrhoids – hypertrophy of the cavernous veins of the rectal plexus of the rectum – is the most common proctological disease. Before reading the article, we advise the faint of heart to disable the display of drawings.

07.04.2011
Healthy skepticism

The oldest profession can be practiced in 96

Millie provides intimate services for money, and there would be nothing special about it if it weren't for the age of the "night butterfly" – last year she turned 96 years old.

07.04.2011
Exhibitions and conferences

The entry of Russian nanotechnologies into the world market

III Annual Scientific and Practical Conference of the Nanotechnology Society of Russia "Entry of Russian Nanotechnologies into the world market: experience of success and cooperation, problems and prospects" (St. Petersburg, October 5-7, 2011).

07.04.2011
Bioethics

Surrogacy

Lawyer S.V.Lebedev answered the questions of readers of "Mednovosti" about the legal and ethical aspects of surrogacy.

06.04.2011